Hey guys its me again and I thought I'd let everybody know how the swap is going. Well I took out my KA engine today, and cleanded my engine bay. I got to say that it was harder to clean the engine bay then to take out the KA. You would be suprised how dirty it can get underneath the hood when the car has 244k miles. I'm also kind of pissed of right now considering my uncle is helping me do the swap right now and he is some kind of gungho mechanic. I printed out FAQ on Heavy Throttle to help as a reference guide but whenever I tell my uncle that we should do something this way and he will say no and want to do it another way. Now don't get me wrong my uncle is a great guy and can do some pretty amazing stuff with a car but he just doesn't want to be reasonable and listen to instructions. We ended up getting in a whole argument because he feels that the internet is giving me wrong information and that we will have to do the swap from scratch and I keep telling him that this swap isn't nothing new and that its almost down to a science installing a sr20det in a 240. Well tommorow if he doesn't want to listen to me then I'm going to tell him to take a hike because I don't want him ******* up my car.
Sorry for the long post but I had to vent some stuff there. You guys have a good day now.
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You don't have to do anything in a particular way. I printed out a hole how-to step-by-step thing that I compiled, and didn't hardly reference it.
Once you get into it's pretty self-explanatory where stuff goes and how stuff fits in. One piece of advice if you don't slide the drivshaft in while you're lowering the engine, it's a *****. I had to unbolt the drive shaft at elbow joint to create enough slack in the line and then beat the hell out of the transmission until I was able to push the driveshaft in. Would have been easier to slide it in while the engine was still on the hoist and being lowered.
Once you get into it's pretty self-explanatory where stuff goes and how stuff fits in. One piece of advice if you don't slide the drivshaft in while you're lowering the engine, it's a *****. I had to unbolt the drive shaft at elbow joint to create enough slack in the line and then beat the hell out of the transmission until I was able to push the driveshaft in. Would have been easier to slide it in while the engine was still on the hoist and being lowered.
Well i H8 UR DSM your probably right and I guess I'll let him install the engine his way and if it doesn't work then atleast I can ***** at him HAHAHAH!!!
golddollar I wish I could fire him but you can't fire someone that you don't pay, and your totally right about how you can't tell a mechanic what to do because every mechanic thinks they're the best.
Unfrgivn thanks for the advice and I will definately keep that in mind when dropping the SR in.
golddollar I wish I could fire him but you can't fire someone that you don't pay, and your totally right about how you can't tell a mechanic what to do because every mechanic thinks they're the best.
Unfrgivn thanks for the advice and I will definately keep that in mind when dropping the SR in.
I agree, let him do his thang. If you look at the options, it makes sense.
1. Let him do his thing, and everything works.2. Let him do his thing, he did something wrong, it's on him to fix it because he did it his way.3. Do it your way, and have everything take twice as long, if it ends up working, then Hooray, but it took 5 years to do it, and if it doesnt work, then you're stuck with no help, and a car that doesn't run.
I wish I had a know-it-all mechanic uncle. Consider yourself lucky.
1. Let him do his thing, and everything works.2. Let him do his thing, he did something wrong, it's on him to fix it because he did it his way.3. Do it your way, and have everything take twice as long, if it ends up working, then Hooray, but it took 5 years to do it, and if it doesnt work, then you're stuck with no help, and a car that doesn't run.
I wish I had a know-it-all mechanic uncle. Consider yourself lucky.